Talk:pix
Latest comment: 13 years ago by DAVilla in topic RFV discussion
RFV discussion
editRfv-sense: Plural form of pic (picture). Really? --Yair rand (talk) 23:31, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
- Really. The first page of google books:"a few pix", for example, has seven hits that are definitely in this sense, one hit that I think is probably in this sense, one hit that I have no idea about, and one scanno. —RuakhTALK 23:39, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
- Yup, really, really. This term has been around for a long time. -- Ghost of WikiPedant 23:43, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
- Is it plural of pic (normal plural pics), or is it plural of picture? — lexicógrafo | háblame — 00:09, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
- Hmm. The similar-sounding (deprecated template usage) tix must be a plural of ticket, because there isn't a singular like *tic. Equinox ◑ 09:26, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
- Along the some lines - and related to the discussion of -x-/-x - is pax for passengers. Both tix and, especially, pax seem to me to be more written than spoken. pix might have more use in speech than either.
- The terms like this that have an entertainment industry application may have been popularized, if not coined, in w:Variety, whose back issues, together with w:Damon Runyon stories, memorialize versions of distinctive New York talk. Variety had a famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix" (Small-town audiences reject movies with rural characters/characters like themselves), parodied in w:Yankee Doodle Dandy as "Stix Nix Hix Pix". For a family of others from Variety, see oater, sudser, tuner, etc. DCDuring TALK 12:04, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
RFV passed. DAVilla 18:44, 30 October 2010 (UTC) }}